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Sunday – 07/7/2013 – 9:00AM
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Contact Info
Rich Hanna
(805) 897-2680
rhanna@SantaBarbaraCA.gov

Event Registration
• Printable Entry Form

Contact Info
Rich Hanna
(805) 897-2680
rhanna@SantaBarbaraCA.gov

Past Results
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006

The athletes who participated in the ocean swims can attest to that. Those who entered the 3-mile swim and 5-mile biathlon (4-mile beach run, 1 mile) during the first weekend of the 75th annual festival had to battle through a strong current and choppy water conditions off East Beach. On the following weekend, the swimmers were relieved to have calmer water for the 1-mile swim along East Beach and 6-miler from Goleta Beach Pier to Hendry’s Beach.

Distance swimmer Evan Morrison won both the Semana Nautica 3-Mile Ocean Swim and the 6-Mile Ocean Swim.

In the 1-mile swim, Mark Warkentin had his three-year winning streak snapped by Konrad Antoniuk of Newhall. Antoniuk won in an exciting finish, edging out Matt Johnson in their dash from the water to the finish lime by one second (18:03 to 18:04). Warkentin finished third in 18:27.

Nicole Antoniuk, Konrad’s younger sister, was the women’s champion and placed fifth overall.

Goleta’s Evan Morrison claimed the unofficial honor as Semana Nautica’s distance swim champion by winning the 6-mile and 3-mile events. His time in the 6-miler was 2 hours, 4 minutes, 54 seconds.

In a challenging 3-mile swim, he churned through the chop and won in 1 hour, 14 minutes, 30 seconds.

“There was, it seemed like, probably a two-foot chop just consistently coming into my head so it’s hard not get a mouth full of saltwater every breath you take,” he said.

Courtney Weigand, who’s done several open water swims in her career, was the first woman finisher and took second overall in 1:15.57.

Santa Barbara’s Ed Smith, who annually competes in all the ocean swim events, came in third.

Smith won the 5-mile biathlon in rough-water conditions.

“It was like bobbin like a cork in the ocean,” Smith said of the swim. His time was 53 minutes, 39 seconds.

Becky Glusac was the women’s champion (fourth overall) in 56:36.

“You can’t even get to the start because of the current,” Glusac said of the tough conditions. “Both ways you feel like you’re in a washing machine just getting tossed around.”

Swimming wasn’t the only activity going on in the ocean during the festival.

Ocean water polo made its Semana Nautica debut. Eight teams played on a “field” set up off Stearns Wharf, below the Ty Warner Sea Center. In the final, the UCSB Dream Team, composed of current UCSB players, defeated Team Turbo in a best-of-three series. After splitting the first two games by identical 6-2 scores, the UCSB Dream Team took the finale 6-3.

Event organizers were pleased how the event came off and look forward to expanding it for future Semana Nauticas.

“The city has been great to help us host this,” said organizer Wolf Wigo, the UCSB men’s water polo coach and a three-time U.S. Olympian.

Paddlers also got into the act in the Downwinder, an 11-mile race from Goleta Beach Cove to East Beach and the East Beach 3-mile paddle.

On land, a local boy won the Fourth of July 15-kilometer foot race, one of the longest-running events in Southern California. Sergey Sushchikh, a 2011 Dos Pueblos graduate who now attends UCLA, captured the 9.3-mile race through Santa Barbara streets in 48 minutes, 57 seconds. Sushchikh proudly ran in a DP singlet. Pasadena’s Mandy Grantz won the women’s title for the second straight year. Her time was 57:11.

On the sands of East Beach, a couple of former Santa Barbara High volleyball teammates reunited to win the California Beach Volleyball Association Santa Barbara Men’s Open. Will Montgomery and Jeremy Casebeer came from behind to knock off Adam Cabbage and 6-11 Andrew Fuller in a thrilling final, 12-21, 21-15, 15-13.

Montgomery and Casebeer just completed the college careers. Montgomery played for NCAA champion UC Irvine and Casebeer played on the final team of legendary UCLA coach Al Scates.

In the women’s open, Kelsey Robinson and Emily Stockman topped Richell Squire and Lauren Mills for the title.

The Santa Barbara Open tennis tournament also was part of Semana Nautica. The men’s open final was an all-Cal Poly affair with No. 1 player Andre Dome sweeping southpaw teammate Marco Comuzzo. Dome finished the college season as the No. 40-ranked player in the nation. The Poly duo combined to win the doubles as well. Zusazanna Fodor defeated UCSB’s Natalia Lozano for the women’s open singles title, and the sister act of Loesje Guizar and Danielle Ouwendijk of Somis won the women’s open doubles over Santa Barbara’s Kim Denig and Eva Rivera of Ventura, 6-4, 6-3.

Swimmers of all ages took the Los Banos Pool for the traditional Semana Nautica competitions — the Reg Richardson Masters and the Age-Group Meet.

The Masters Meet featured two competitors in their 90s — 91-year-old Maurine Kornfeld and 94-year-old Rita Simonton.

Proof that Semana Nautica is for everyone.

Men’s 37 and Over

1st place John Braunstein & Jonathan Nino
2nd place Chris Guiglano & Tim Nestlerode
3rd place Stein Metzger & Mike Lambert
3rd place Christian Love & Mark Foreman

Men’s 45 and Over

1st place Greg Lyle & Jim Nichols
2nd place Mark Donalson & Mike Bird
3rd place Joe Gagnon & Dan Salyer
3rd place Joe Erikat & Mitch Siemens

Women’s 37 and Over

1st place Kelly Drobeck & Tina Kinkead
2nd place Jackie Campbell & Ilga Celmins
3rd place K.C Collins & Michelle Kobashi
3rd place Veronica Sanchez & Vladia Vignato

Check back here for updates and news from the festival as the week goes on. We will provide important news updates, results, and more.

Thank you for being a part of the fun!!!

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FESTIVAL WRAP-UP: Thank you for another incredible year of Semana Nautica!!! Our 75th festival was certainly a blast. Thanks to all of you who participated in any of the events or those who supported our efforts as official festival sponsors. We look forward to seeing you all back in 2013…

MONDAY UPDATE: Evan Morrison became a two-time champion at the 2012 festival by winning the 6-Mile Ocean Swim on Sunday, a week after championing the 3-Mile Ocean Swim. The festival came to a close on Monday with the DMI 10-Mile Time Trial bike race.

SUNDAY UPDATE: Konrad Antoniuk and Nicole Antoniuk won titles at Saturday’s Mullen & Henzell 1-Mile Ocean Swim. [RESULTS]. Cal Poly’s Andre Dome won the men’s title at the 76th Santa Barbara Tennis Open on Saturday at the Tennis Club of Santa Barbara.

FRIDAY UPDATE: The Santa Barbara Tennis Open has its Men’s Open semifinals today at the Tennis Club of Santa Barbara. The Age-Group Swim Meet at Los Baños Pool gets started.

THURSDAY UPDATE: Sergey Sushchikh and Mandy Grantz won Wednesday’s Semana Nautica 15k on the 4th of July. Reef & Run ran its first Biathlon on Thursday along with its usual ocean swims. The Santa Barbara Foresters dropped their 4th of July baseball game 8-0 at UCSB’s Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.

SUNDAY (7/1) UPDATE: Check out our Facebook page for photos posted from the last two days of events. Today, Will Montgomery and Jeremy Casebeer won their first CBVA Men’s Santa Barbara Open at East Beach. The draws at the Santa Barbara Tennis Open were whittled down further to Championship matches scheduled for next Saturday. Ed Smith and Becky Glusack won the 5-Mile Biathlon.

SATURDAY (6/30) UPDATE: Evan Morrison and Courtney Weigand win the 3-mile ocean swim on Saturday; UCSB Dream Team wins Ocean Water Polo Tournament.

Montgomery and Casebeer ended the run of another local duo, Chris Pratt and Miles Evans, in the semifinals 30-28. Cabbage and Fuller won their semi 28-22.

Montgomery and Casebeer were teammates in high school at Santa Barbara High and just finished collegiate careers, Montgomery with national champion UC Irvine and Casebeer with UCLA.

In Saturday’s Women’s Open, Kelsey Robinson and Emily Stockman topped Richell Squire and Lauren Mills for the title.

One week after taking the 3-mile swim in choppy water off East Beach, he captured the 6-mile swim from Goleta Beach Pier to Hendry’s Beach in much calmer conditions on Sunday. Morrison completed the swim in 2 hours, 4 minutes, 54 seconds.

Morrison is an avid long-distance swimmer. He is a member of the Santa Barbara Channel Swim Association. Last year he won the 24-mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim. Last month he won a 6.5 mile swim in San Francisco Bay, from Point Bonita to Aquactic Park.

Patti Bauernfield of Dublin was the women’s winner in 2:18.48.

Four of the top five swimmers placed in the top five in 2011 as well, with Konrad taking the overall title from former Olympian Mark Warkentin.

Warkentin had enjoyed a dominating run in the event, winning the race three years in a row and five of the last six. He didn’t compete in 2008 as he prepared for the Beijing Olympics.

Konrad Antoniuk broke the streak with a winning time of 18 minutes and three seconds.

Matt Johnson finished a close second at 18.04. Warkentin came in third with a time of 18.27. Mitchell Johnson (4th) and Nicole Antoniuk (5th) rounded out the top-five.

Nicole Antoniuk’s victory was her fourth straight dating back to 2009. The Newhall resident is committed to swim at Cal Poly starting this fall. It’s also the fourth straight year that Antoniuk has placed fifth overall.

COMPLETE RESULTS

In total, 121 swimmers competed in the event, slightly down from 143 in 2011.

Andre Dome is a first-time Santa Barbara Open champion. (Presidio Sports Photo)

A twister blew through the 76th Santa Barbara Open.

Top-seeded Andre Dome, unleashing a fierce, twisting, two-fisted forehand and backhand and a big serve, overpowered Cal Poly teammate Marco Comuzzo, 6-2, 6-4 in the Men’s Open singles final on Saturday at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club.

It was the first tournament win of the summer for Dome, who led the Mustangs to the Big West title, was named the conference player of the year and finished the season as the No.40-ranked collegiate singles player in the country.

The Arroyo Grande High graduate came out on fire against his teammate and summer training partner, breaking Comuzzo on his first serve and then serving a love game to take a 2-0 lead.

COMPLETE DRAWS & RESULTS

“I don’t think he made one error,” said the left-handed Comuzzo of Dome’s fast start.

Dome twists his entire upper body when he blasts a two-handed forehand and backhand from the baseline. And the ball is spinning and sizzling, making it difficult to return.

“That’s how I was taught,” he said. “I don’t practice it, it’s just natural for me to do that. The only way to get power on those shots is to use torque with it.”

Comuzzo, a native of Auckland, New Zealand, has gotten more familiar with Dome’s wicked returns, having trained with him for the last three weeks.

Dome said he’s seen big improvement in Comuzzo’s game.

“Practice is always heated and it’s always close but I usually get the upper hand,” said Dome, who earned a spot in the NCAA Individual Championships this season. “I have a little more experience, but he’s improved in the last three weeks. Three weeks ago it would have been a lot easier for me, but today it was kind of tough in the second set. He played well.”

Dome completed his junior year and Comuzzo his sophomore campaign at Cal Poly.

After dropping the first game of the second set, Dome won the next three games. He broke Comuzzo for the third time in the match, using big returns and a surprise lob shot for a point.

“That was difference in the match,” Dome said of the serving. “He didn’t break me and I broke him a couple of times.”

Dome appeared to have Comuzzo down and out at the start of the seventh game when he ran down a pair of drop shots and won the point. But Comuzzo regained his composure, fought back and won the game, cutting the deficit to 4-3.

He went ahead 40-30 in the next game on a beautiful passing shot, but Dome answered with a winner down the line to knot the score at deuce. Comuzzo missed another break-point opportunity when he mis-hit a second serve. Dome ended up winning the game on an ace and a long backhand return by Comuzzo.

“There were a few games in the second set that I got into a service game but other than that he was always pressing on my serve, which was tough to deal with, and he broke me,” said Comuzzo. “He was returning well.

“I felt when I got into the points, we were kind of even,” he added, “but those initial returns and serves he was much better.”

Comuzzo held serve to make it 5-4 before Dome finished him off with a pair of aces in a love game.

“It’s always an honor to win a tournament,” said Dome of winning in his SB Open debut. “It’s good for the confidence for the next couple of tournaments. It’s always good to get a W.”

In other action, the sister team of Loesje Guizar and Danielle Ouwendijk of Somis won the Women’s Open doubles final, beating Santa Barbara’s Kim Denig and Eva Rivera of Ventura, 6-4, 6-3.

The finals of the USTA Men’s 50s National Hardcourt Championships also were being contested at the Tennis Club. In the singles final, Mike Tammen of Portland, Ore., rallied to defeat Bill Moss of Malibu, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2. Former Long Beach State teammates Ross Hessler (Mission Viejo) and Jon Tyrell (Sierra Madre) captured the doubles title with a 6-3, 6-4 win over David Porte and Thomas Schlack of Long Beach.